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DULL, STUPID, YET A GENIUS.
Ntnncwall J.irkMm, the Mrrund <>n
tedrratr Hero.
REMINIBOENOEH OK A CONSPICUOUS HKISEI
HIS SIMPLICITY, PIETY, AND OIU.AT
QUALITIES AS A SOLDIER PItAYINO
WHILE HE FOUGHT.
By tlie K*v. Flor.no. McCarthy, of Chie(to.J
Sixteen years ago, when I was com
menciiiK to preach, I was the pastor
of the Baptist church in the village
of Lexington, in the valley of Vir
ginia. tlie seat of the Virginia Mili
tary Institute, and what is now call
ed Washington and Lee University.
Major T. J. .Taeksou was, and for sev
eral years lmd been, a professor in
tlie military institute. What his de
partment was l never knew, but hr
was not the principal of the institu
tion, and hv no means tlie most
prominent teacher. 1 was not per
sonalty acquainted with him, but lie
was sometimes in my congregation.
I saw him constantly, and I remem
ber distinctly his reputation in the
town about the time the war broke
out and iiis marvellous career com
menced.
Most of tlie people at the North
would be somewhat surprised to know
what tlie personal appearance of this
great man was. Jackson was about
six feet tali, very lunkandlong-limb
od.
When ho walked it was with a long,
methodical stride, and accompanied
with a leisurely, pendulum-like sway
ing of the arms. He wore a military
cap, the visor of which nearly touch
ed his nose, and his eyes seemed al
ways iixed on the ground. When I
knew him lie always wore short whis
kers ami moustache, which conceal
ed the lower part of his fare. But I
remember distinctly meeting him one
day on tlie first Bull liun battlefield,
the day after the battle, and getting
a view of his mouth. Tlie mouth is
usually a great index of character;
but any one would search Jackson’s
mouth in vain for any sign of great
ness. His lips wore thin and red,
his upper lip short and the corners of
his mouth upturned; th whole
mouth expressing in a most unmis
takable way a vast amount of sweet
ness and gentleness, but. giving a
hint of courage, endurance, perse
verance, or any sort of genius. Jack
son’s voice was like his mouth, very
sort, kindly find inarticulate, some
times like a faint jabber. His fore
head, nose and chin were prominent,
and eorrcs|H>nded more with his
character. It is pretty safe to s.iv
that while his uppearance and car
riage were somewhat eccentric, iiis
looks were entirely destitute of any
thing dbtinguc, and that he passed
for an ordinary-looking man.
Tlie most prominent trait in Jack
son’s character was
ms MET*.
He was a in 'luber of the Presbyte
rian Church in the village, and was
well known ns an humble, cons den
tious, devoted, and consistent Chris
tian man. He was not only a eon
stunt attendant on preaching, but, a
consecrated teacher of a class of ne
gro ohi Idre u in tlie Sunday School,
an ex hotter in the prayer meeting,
aud a systematic and munificent giv
er to every benevolent object. In
illustration of this point it is related j
that a day or two after the first bat
tle of Bull Bun the whole village col
lected al the stage stand in a storm
of excitement, awaiting the news.
When the stage arrived and the mail
was opened it was announced that
DR'vdrtW, the venerable pastor ofj
ttie Presbyterian Church, Who was
present, had received a letter from
<ien. Jackson. The Doetor mounted
the stand, arranged his spectacles,
broke the envelope, aud proceeded!
to read to the crowd the rnomeri !
tons document. It read somethingas |
fellows : "Ileal Pastor We had a bat
tle yesterday. Enclosed please find
check for #1 in, being my subscrip
tion missions now duo.” And the fer
vent piety seemed to deepen during
his life l'n the army. His hours of
prayer while in the tented field were*
observed with singular faithfulness.
The old negro who was his body ser
vant in tiie field declared (hat he
could tell when there was going to be
any heavy fighting by the constancy
with which his master gave himself
to his devotions. And Jackson’s
humble faitli iu God shone forth the
brightest in liis dying moment. For
after receiving his death wound, when
all about him were overwhelmed
with grief, ho played the part of
comforter, and constantly exclaimed,
•■rt is all right ! it is all right !’’
It was said and believed in Jack
son’s corps that the General was al- |
wuy*
ENGAGED IN TRAVEIt
whenever he was fighting, and that, ,
us he rode along the lines in the ]
leaden hail, his right hand was al
ways raised hesoecliiugly to heaven.
Tliis had a wonderfully inspiring ef
fect ou his Virginians, who were all
intensely religious men ;but, unfortu
nately for poetry and romance, tlie
impression was afterward discovered
to he unrounded. Jackson, early in
the war, had received a wound in the
right hand, which I must not omit to
say, pareuthetieally, he refused,
Sidney-like, to let the surgeon dress
until some private soldier had been
waited ou. This wound always in
terfered with tlie circulation of the
blood in that hand, so that he felt
more comfortable when it was held
upright, as if he was under the influ
ence of strong emotion. And as he
was always ft sleepy looking man,
and appeared all the time as if he i
had the smoke of the camp fire in his -
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•yes, it is case to see lunv natural it
was for men to get the idea that lie
was prating ail the time he was
chasing Banks.
But I lie point in which the public
is tlie fmcheresr astnii concerning
fuckspli is iiis intellect. Almost
■very one at the North who remem
bers liis brilliant achievements takes
it for grunted that he was a brilliant
scholar. But the truth is, thm.
Jackson was remarkable for his luck
of what is called intellectual acumen.
Ho graduated about third in his class
.rom West Point, but It is universal
ly conceded that it was the result ol
Ids extraordinary determination and
perseverance, and no brightness ol
mind. He never cut any figure as a
professor, and was generally regar
ded as a very dull, obtuse sort of a
person. I have heard a graduate ot
the military institute ridiculing
Jackson’s weakness as a teacher ot
mathematics. He said he lmd known
Jackson to pass as satisfactory a
problem which one of the class had
worked out on the blackboard, and
afterward, ns the boys learned by
PEERING THROUGH THE KEYHOLE,
spend the whole afternoon trying to
understand what was on the hoard
himself,
And yet, ou other accounts, Jack
son was very much beloved by the
cadets. He was extraordinarily kind
mil gentle. The graduate ulmve re
ferred to, told me thnt once he be
came angry with Jackson in the
class-room, and made some demon
stration of hatred, and Unit Jackson’s
only reply was in his faint, jabbering,
but benevolent tone ot voice, "Now.
now, Mr. Patton, do you just pul nil
that hatred against your lesson in
stead of against me. and you will
have no difficulty.” The cadets were
fond of him for his singular courage
also. It was said that on one Occa
sion a number of them mounted the
barracks at the hour when Jackson
had to walk under the eaves of the
house, and dropped brickbats in front
of him as he walked along, endeav
oring to see hoiv near they could
conic to his head without hitting it.
As this trick was played at the im
mediate risk of killing tlie innocent
Professor, it would hardly be believ
ed that the cadets would practice it,
unless the reader was first informed
that these cadets were generally reck
less, riotous, irresponsible, and un
scrupulous desperadoes. It is said
that they succeeded admirably In
making all the bricks graze Prof.
Jackson’s nose. But to their utter
surprise the Major did not look up,
unr around, nor quicken iiis pace at
all. He possessed such extraordinary
nerve and determination that he
treated the whole performance with
icy contempt. From that time he
was greatly admired and beloved for
his physical courage. He was also
remarkable for his punctuality. Al
though a very solemn, taciturn, slug
gish, and rather dignified man, he
was often seen to strike a trot on the
street when he was a minute behind
time in going to meet ids class.
One comical peculiarity of Jackson
was his talent for going to sleep.
When I lived iu Lexington it was a
well-known fact that the Major, not
withstanding his punctilious attend
ance at church, had never heard Dr.
White preach. About the time that
the second hymn was sung lie invari
ably went to "the land of nod, whence
ho returned oplv when aroused by
the last hymn. it. wus said that this
habit was the effect of disease, and
could not be help.-1. It followed him
all through life, and I saw him yield
to it once in the army. On one Sun
day, somewhere in Eastern Virginia,
I remember attending a preaching
service in front of (fen. Jackson’s
headquarters. The General sat, at
the preacher’s right hand on a back
less camp stool. As the sun was very
hot and there was no shade, lie held
his cap in his right, hand between liis
head and the sun, liis reverence not
permitting him to place it on liis
head, as many others did theirs.
With his hand elevated in that, way,
ho peacefully glide i off into dream
land and slept without, moving his
arm or nodding once, until the noise
of the olosing exercises startled him
into eonsciousness again. The truth
is, Gen. Jackson always looked as if
he were asleep; and even when walk
ing lie had the appearance of a som
nambulist,
Jasksou, while ho was a gentle,
benevolent man, and an extremely
urbane aud polite man, was also a
very grave mail. And it was said in
L'xington that tlie only time any
one ever saw him laugh was when the
war broke out. But this story was
probably apocryphal, for I was in
formed on "good authority that he
’viewed the commencement of hostil
ities with grief and horror. He had
seen service in Mexico, arid lie as
sured the people of the village, who
were boiling over with the war spirit,
that they did not know whuf war
was, or their rejoicing would be turn
ed to wailing.
It is a singular tiling in the retro
spect that the Southern people were
so well aware that, Jackson was
A STUPID DONO* OF A FELLOW,
that even his brilliant success did not
entirely convince them that lie could
he trusted. He was made a colonel,
aud acquitted himself so handsome
ly that they made him a brigadier:
but the opinion of liis friends was
that he was advanced too quickly,
and that tie would prove a failure ;
and the very same opinions were, re
iterated wneti lie was made a major
general and lieutenant-general. And,
notwithstanding all the adoring ad
miration with which the Southern
people cherish iiis memory to-day, j
they still thiol- he never could have
taken Lee’s pin •. It is my opinion,
however and J think his whole ca
reer bears me in it—that lie would i
have been far more successful as
commander-in-chief than lie was as
lieutenant-general, and more so by
far than Lee was. His ability never j
had a Held wide enough to exert it
self in.
Jackson’s military character was a
very strong one, totally unlike that,j
of any of tlio great generals of mod
ern times. Its peculiarities lay in its
simplicity. Jackson was never known
to devise a complicated campaign,
(fen. Lee’s plans consisted of a hun
dred parts, and although they were
concocted with consummate ability,
some of them always broke down ori
the day of battle. But Jackson’s
strategy consisted simply in reaching
some point before bis opponent had
the slightest idea he could do it, and
tiien fighting him with a good deal
of dash. All his wonderful feats were
accomplished by rapid marching, so
that the rest of his army used to call
his troops “Jackson’s foot cavalry.”:
Arid it is a very singular fact thati
although the Federal generals knew j
that Jackson was as fleet as the
wind, and were always making allow
ances in their plans for his extraor
dinary rapidity of movement, he con
tinued to the day of his death to sitr-
COLUMBUS, GA., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1875.
prise them in the same way. When
Lee was making ready to attack
McClellan in front of Hielimoud, 1
was ill that devoted city ; aud l re
member distinctly that when the citi
zens thought that Jackson was in the
lower valley, two or three hundred
miles away, he was within sixteen
miles of the city, aud the next day
foil on McClellan's right like
A THUNDERBOLT FROM A CLEAR SKY.
Jackson’s peculiar mode of warfare
by surprise was illustrated the very
first time that he was intrusted with
an independent coiumaud. Soon
after the first battle of Bull Bun,
when Jackson wus a Brigadier, Gen.
Joe Johnson tint him iu command of
ono or two brigades and sent him
from Manassas Junction over the
Blue Bulge, into the valley of Vir
ginia, to hang around Winchester,
chiefly as an army of observation,
fackson no sooner reached Winches
ter t)iatl he learned thiM Milroy with
a large force was strongly intrenched
it lVrryville, fifty miles oil. Con
sidering that, in addition to his earth
works, the weather was hitter cold,
the roads deep, the ground covered
with snow, and Jackson's men very
poorly elftd, Milroy devoted himself
entirely to playing euchre. But one
morning he looked out of iiis tent
and saw Stonewall Jackson’s men
coming up the road. The result was
that Milroy's army was chased into
Maryland, Jackson pursuing them
withtlie fixed determination of
GOING TO WASHINGTON.
But, Jeff Davis, who regarded him
self as the only great General In the
South, learning of Jackson's exploit,
and inferring most assuredly that he
was crazy, sent a hasty telegram to
him to “come hack;” in answer to
which it is said that, the indignant
Stonewall sent him word to send
him “more men and fewer orders.”
In order to effect tlie surprise of
Milroy, Jackson had marched and
frozen a large number of ids men to
death, and the rest of them reached
Perryvillo in a pitiable condition of
weakness and suffering. But this
“crazy” General knew that if lie
could only get them there uh soon as
he wanted to, the mere sight of
them would be enough to settle Mil
roy’s hash, and that not so many of
them would be killed by the forced
march as would be killed ill tlie next
spring if Milroy was not, humbled.
This singular faculty of outmarch
ing everybody was the key to Jack
son’s success, but lie possessed sev
eral groat traits of character,without
which this would have been either
impossible or of no use. Jackson was
a man of iron constitution and super
human powers of ondurauce. He was
a remarkably punctual ruau. He was
a rigid disciplinarian. He possessed
a strong religious faith, aud In all his
labors enjoyed the powerful support
of his conscience. _ And thou ne was
a person of conspicuous moral and
physical courage. Though an ex
tremely modest man, he is credited
with having said of himself that, he
really did not know what the feeling
of fear was. And to this wonderful
fearlessness ho at last fell a victim, in
the Wilderness, by riding on horse
back uwuy in front of his linos on a
dark night in an unknown country,
with a view of ascertaining, by get -
ting himself shot, at, whore the en
emy was. Bqr, these qualities, com
bined with his humility in mixing
with the private soldiers in their re
ligious meetings, and his unostenta
tious appearance, his dingy, sun
burned, yellow-grey clothes, arid liis
old
POT-BELLIED, SORIIEL RIDING MARE,
and especially ills successes, gave
him at least such a hold on the confi
dence and affection of iiis corps that
he was utterly invincible,
i That Jackson should have acquired
tlie sobriquet “Stonewall” is one of
the solecisms of the war. It, is said
that it was given him at the first bat
tle of Bull Bun, on account of tlie
stubborn resistance he made jt*pt be
fore tlie Federal stampede. And it is
true that at the second battle of Bull
Bun,while waiting for Loiigstreet, he
made a still more heroic stand in the
face of overwhelming numbers. But
nothing could he a greater slander on
Jackson than to call him a “stone
wall. Loiigstreet was the real stone
wall. For re-forming his lines after
they had been crushed, and keeping
his men up to the scratch after they
had been licked all to pieces, Long
street was tlie man. But Jackson
scorned defensive warfare, and was
so famous for being the attacking
parly and for making unexpected as
saults, that if lie lmd been called
“Fugle,” or “Avalanche,” it would
have been infinitely more appro
priate.
There are two anecdotes of Jackson
that were current in Urn Southern
army during his life time, which are
very illustrative of Ids character and
habits, and which, ns 1 have never
seen them in print, I will narrate.
The first shows how his punctual
habits, without which it is safe to
say he never could have been a great
man, followed him from the military
institutute to tiie field. It used to he
said among the soldiers that on one
occasion Jackson sent a message to
one of his captains to meet him at
headquarters at
TEN MINUTES TO TWELVE O’CLOCK.
At the appointed moment the Gen
eral was seated in front, of his tent,
ready for business. But twelve
o’clock came, and the captain had
not appeared. But tiie hour of noon
was with Jackson the hour of prayer,
and ho immediately withdrew into
liis inner tent, where he remained in
| seclusion for half an hour. When he
: emerged again he found the delin
j quent captain sitting meekly in front
| of headquarters awaiting his return.
| But Jackson was so disgusted with
Ids unsoldierly dilatoriness that lie
refused to tell him the object of the
summons of have anything to say to
j him, but with a gentle wave of the
j hand dismissed him, crestfallen and
disgraced, to his regiment.
! The other anecdote brings a very
| different scene. Gen. Burnside, hav
: ing very foolishly crossed the Rappa
hannock river at Fredrieksburg,!
where Lee was ensconced in impreg-,
nagable natural fortifications, and
having been dreadfully cut to pieces
during tlie afternoon and evening,
Lee called a council of war late in the
night to determine what should be
done to follow up liis advantage.
Among the Major-Generals present
was Jackson, who, as soon as he got
a seat, was fast asleep, and remained
so throughout the conference. \\ lien
every one else had given iiis opinion,
Jackson was, with some difficulty,
waked up, and requested to say what
lie thought had better be done with
: the enemy, and the only words that
j could be "extracted from him were ;
i “Drive in river : drive ’em iu river:
j after mumbling which he instantly
I sank into a state of unoonciousness.
: Nothing could be more characteristic
!of the great captain than this inci-
dent. The other Generals were full
if marching and oounter-marohing,
if combination and tricks, and he
roin ventures ; Jackson had only one
weapon surprise. He knew that
Burnside’s men wore lying along the
bank of tlie river in multitudes, in a
terribly demoralized condition, and
tliat|a idglit, attack would strike them
with terror, and drive them like sheep
Into the Rappahannock. He after
ward explained that it was a part of
Ills plan that the attack should be
made in the darkest part of the
night, with fixed bayonets, and that
the Confederates, in order to avoid
slaughtering each other, should strip
themselves start naked. Truly tills
wasmi original and startling project:
but I have ueveryet seen anyone who
doubted thnt, if it had been carried
out, not a baker’s dozen of Burnside’s
troops would have escape: 1.
The admiration and love of the
Southern army for Jackson wus 1
something wonderful. There never
was a clearer case of hero-worship.
He was regarded as a faultless man.
and an invincible man ; and 1 suppose
he could at any time hove got liis
men to march out by platoons and lie
shot, if it would have gratified him
In the slightest degree- At his death
the whole South was in tears, and
not more for their irreparable loss
than on account of their tender love
fertile man.
As regards Jackson’s relations with
Leo and t ho ol her great Sent hern Gen
erals, it was obvious to me that they
felt toward each other like brothers,
and never knew what the feeling of
jealousy was. Leo was always thrust
ing Jackson forward whenever any
thing glorious was to lie done, and
Jackson always showed the must sin
cere sdmiration and respect for Lee's
plans and orders. When victory
perched on their banners, Leo hug
ged Jackson ami told him the credit
was all duo to him; then Jackson
would declare that Lee was the man
that deserved all the praise ; and then
both of them would agree that to
God belonged all the glory.
WNMIHMIPPI.
AMES TO PIEIIREPONT.
Washington, Wept. 20.—The follow
ing telegram from Gov. Ames to the
Attorney-General, relating to affairs
in Mississippi, was to-day made pub
lic:
Jackson, Miss., Sept. 11.
Attorney-Pierrcpont, ll'iis/t-
Unjlon , ]>. ('.;
The necessity which called forth
my dispatch of the nth instant to the
President still exists. Your question
of yesterday, repeated to-day, asks
for information which I gladly give.
The violence is incident to the politi
cal contest preceding the pending
election. Unfortunately the question
of race, which lias been prominent in
the Soutli since the war, has assumed
magnified importance at this time in
certain localities. In fact the race
feeling is so intense that protection
for tlie colored by white organiza
tions is despaired of. A political con
test made on the white line forbids it.
j The history of the colored people
j since reconstruction, and its bearing
on the situation at this time, and a
detailed statement of the trouble
here, cannot be condensed in a tele
gram. Tliis State lias been opposed
to organizing a militia of colored
men. It lias been believed by them
that it would devclope a war of races
which would extend beyond the bor
ders of tins State. The organization
of whites alone where tlie issue is one
of race would be equally ineffectual.
The most complete protection would
bo found in the strict non-interfer
ence of the whites.
Contradictions will be numerous,
so they were last winter, but the re
port of the Congressional Oommitt.es
proved the correctness of my asser
tions. lam aware of the reluctance
of the people of the country to na
tional interference in State affairs,
though if there bo no violation of the
laws there can be no interference.
Permit me to express the hope that
the odium of sueii interference shall
not attach to President Grant or I lie
Republican party. As the Governor
of the State I made a demand which
cannot well be refused. Let the
odium in all its .magnitude descend
upon me. 1 cannot escape the con
scious discharge of my duty towards
a class of American citizens whoso
crime consists in their color, and
whom I am powerless to protect.
[Signed] A DEI,BERT Ames.
Attorney-General Pierrepont says
that the letter to Governor Ames was
intended to show that Federal troops
would not he called out except in
strict accordance with the constitu
tion and laws, after the State had
used its own resources, but that if
the necessity was forced the Govern
ment would indulge in no leniency
towards lawless disturbers of the
public lienee or murderers of inno
cent men.
nentrnrtlve Fire In tattle Itneß.
Little Bock, Ark., Sept. 2). About
3 o’clock this morning a fire broke
out in the back of the store of Geo.
H. Gibbes, adjoining tlie Gilibes
House Nearly the entire inside of
tlie building was enveloped in flumes
before il was discovered. The en
gines were promptly on hand, and
it was thought the flames could be
subdued at this point, hilt the supply
of water gave out, and the fire rapid
ly siuead, consuming the whole
block, with tiie exception (TT-one
small brick building.
ETohlh In the Went.
Chicago, Sept. 20.-- Frosts are re
ported in various parts of Illinois,
lowa and Wisconsin. Saturday night
ill Northern Illinois the damage to
the corn crop was quite heavy, but it
is confined to the late planting.
West Virginia's Capitol.
Wheeling, W. Va., September 20.
The corner atone of the new Capitol
was laid to-day with Masonic honors.
| Business was very generally bus*
I pended,
TFHKIIll.l: NTUIt.II IN TEXAN,
DEVASTATION AND 11UIN.
St. Lotus, Sept. 20. A Galveston
special to the Globe-Democrat, at a
lute hour Saturday night, says the
storm which began on Wednesday
continued to rage with great violence
until late Friday night. The water
from the Gulf overflowed one half of
| Galveston, knocking down some
j hundred small tenements, unroofing
several churches aud residences, and
knocking down signs, awnings and
other hangings. The water was on
the principal streets and the strand
market was several times covered
I two feet deep. Three large schooners
lying in the harbor were swamped,
and one steamboat and two tugs were
sunk, one of them being completely
demolished. A large lUngllsh bark
was forced from her mooring and
driven ashore, and ono schooner was
left forty feet ashore. Ten men who
wore working on the breakwater
were drowned. The health officer,
Dr. G. \V. Pelt, and iiis guards were
drowned, and iiis house carried off.
One negro woman was killed by the
falling of a house after it had floated
fifty feet. Tlie railroad track is torn
up in twenty places on the island, and
the bridge is partially destroyed.
The storm was a regular cyclone.
LATER.
New Orleans, September 2ii, 10 p.
M. A liberal estimate places the los
ses iu buildings, shipping stores,etc.,
at Galveston, at $200,000. The water
began to subside early Friday night,
and Saturday was ot its accustomed
level. Losses fall mainly upon the
poorer class of families,whose houses
are on the eastern end of the island
and washed away.
The Galveston Newx says the water
was two feet higher on the beach
side than ever before known. Dam
age to shipping was not great, most
vessels drawing out in the bay and
eastinganohor. Kuhn’s wharf wash
ed away for sixty feet. The Beards
town drifted ou the flats and was
sunk. Her crew escaped in life boats
to Bolivar point, and were picked up
by steam tug Stewart Van Visit. The
steamer Alpha broke from her moor
ings and now lies high and dry on
the strand, foot of Kith street. The
New York steamer Glide, and gun
boat Bio Bravo, outrode the storm
without accident. Brig Lugittn
Brake was blown against the three
masted schooner New England, and
both slightly damaged. A dozen or
twenty small schooners grounded,
hut are not damaged, A number of
small crafts now lie two miles Inland
on the prairie.
The shore ends of both rail
roads at Virginia point are
washed away and where there are
three breaks in the old bridge, one
three hundred feet, and smallest fifty
foot. Santa Fee bridge suffered but
little, and only for about a mile from
Virginia point: a week will put both
roads in repair. Several men here
toforejroported lost have been found,
so that, the number missing, was ma
terially reduced.
Near Wallisville, 8 miles up the
river there is a complete wrecked
steamer, Katie, high and dry 300 feet
inland, Two of Morgan’sdrodge boats
foundered,and ono man was drowned.
The river is eight feet higher here
than wus ever known before. Storm
from Houston to Lynchburg very
severe, indicting great damage all
along Buffalo Bayou, with occasion
al loss of life.
At Harrisburg everything washed
away. Beef factory level with the
ground. At Lynchburg nothing was
left standing but Lemle’s mill. A doz
en persons wore lost at this point.
Among them was the wife of Dr.
Chamberlain. Oapt. Bell of tho Mat
umoras saved 27 persons from tops
of trees and floating timbers.
Everything at Baytown is washed
away, and at Hog Island tho inhabi
tants took to boats and have not
sinee been heard of.
Houston was under water Friday
morning. The wind blew a hurricane
from the northwest, but went down
with the sun.
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Murine Si-liais.
Galveston, Sept. 20.—Tho A instur
datn, with cotton for Liverpool, went
ashore on St. Bernard’s, 00 miles west
of here, and is lying in 7 feet water.
No lives lost.
The bark Edward McDonald was
blown ashore in tlie bayou, and the
steamer Beardtown was driven from
tho dock arid broken to pieces, and a
number of lives lost.; 27 men, engaged
on tho Government works, clung to
the piling, when the building was I
swept away, and tlie next morning
only eight of them remained.
Went her.
For t.lie South Atlantic States, part- [
ly cloudy,cooler weather with north- I
east to northwest winds, rising |
barometer, possible rain near the I
coast ; for the Gulf States, Tennessee |
urid the Ohio Valley, generally cool-1
er, clear, or fair weather with north-1
west to north-east winds, stationa- j
ry or rising barometer, and north- j
east to south-west winds, with a
slight rise of temperature in tho
south west.
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Mtm-ms In ills West.
St. Louis, Sept. 20.- Capt. Eads
lias a dispatch from the South West
Pass Jetties. The storm continues
but ho damage has been done to the
work, and everything is ready for
rapid work when the storm abates.
Jackson vllle Postmaster.
Washington, Sept. 20.—Win. .T.
Alexander lias been appointed post
master at Jacksonville, Ala., vice J.
A. de iEman.
Alaliaina ('inistltiitlminl Convention.
Montgomery, Sept. 20. In the
Convention to-day a proposition was
introduced und referred providing
that (lie Legislature be prohibited
from levying any tax to pay interest
or principle of any direct or contin
gent debt created by endorsement of
bonds of any railroad, provided after
tho ratification of the Constitution
the Legislature lit. its first session
transfer to holders of said bonds all
collaterals held by tlie State for her
pretended endorsement of the same.
Tho terms of all State executive
officers are two years.
State elections in 1870 in August;
ufterwards to be regulated by the
Legislature.
Bullions granted only on recom
mendation of the Secretary Of State,
Auditor and Attorney General.
Executive officers to reside at the
Capital.
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Itiiliqiian liimdholilers amt Alabama.
New York, Sept. 20.—The London
Financin' of the Bth has the follow
ing-:
At a meeting of holders of Alabama
8 per cent, gold bonds of 1870, it was
resolved that the bondholders are
not unmindful of, and are disposed to
make due allowances for, the difficul
ties and embarrassments under which
the State has for some years labored,
and are willing to meet the Executive
of said State in a fair and eqnitable
spirit, with a view to an arrango
ment|torasettlementof principal and
interest, due. The meeting entirely
approved the course of tlie foreign
bondholders in deciding to authorize
a commissioner to proceed to the
United States to deal with the Exec
utive of Alabama, and endeavor to
negotiate and mature such a scheme
l'or a settlement of the claims of said
holders of gold bonds of 1870 as may
lead to a final adjustment of their
long pending debts. Mr. Snagge is
the commissioner appointed, whose
knowledge of the country and legal
acquirements eminently fit him for
the duties assigned him.
Krliurz to Mprak in Ohio.
Columbus, Ohio, Sept. 20. Curl
Schurz will make nine speeches in
Ohio during the campaign in favor
of a sound currency.
snow ilk Canada.
Quebec, Sept. 20. -Twelve inches of
snow. Ornamental trees and fruit
damaged.
FINANCIAL* COMMERCIAL
VltltlGKTM 111 TICI.EU IIA I'll.
Special to the Daily Times by the H. At A. Line.
FINANCIAL.
New Yottv. September 20. —Gold cloned at 116‘4.
New YOIIK, September 20.—Wall Street, 6 i\ m.—
Money clotted at 4a6 per cent. Stocks closed
strong. State bonds quiet ami steady.
COTTON.
Liverpool, September 20. 1 v. m.—Cotton
steady; sales 10.000 bales, speculation 2,000; Amer
ican ; middling uplands Gls-10d; middling
Orleans 7 5-16d; arrivals firm.
September and October shipments, low mid
dling clause, Gd.
October aud November shipments, low mid
dling clause, 7d.
4 p, m.—Cotton steady; sales 10,000 halgs, specu
lation 2.000; American 6.300; middling uplands
0 16-16d; middling Orleans 7 5-1 fid.
September and October delivery, low middling
clause, 6%d.
New Yobx, September 20.—New class spots
closed easy; ordinary 11 *.*; strict ordinary 11**;
gud ordinary W 4 ; strict good ordinary 12 > ; low
middlings 10*,*; strict low middlings 13 0-16;
middling 13%; good middlings 14; strict good
middling U% ; middling fair 15**; fair 16*4 ;
for exports ; spinners 1,279; speculation —;
transit ; exports to Great Britain —; to the
continent ; stock .
Futures closed weak; sales 18,600 bales as fol
lows: (September 13 18-32a7-ltf; October 12 3t-82a
13; November 12 27-32nJ£; December 12 27-32a*£ ;
January 12 a5-16a31-32; February 13 5-32a3-16;
March 13\a13-32; April 13 IM 6*19-32; May 13 24-32
al3-lfi; June 13 31-32*14; July 14 3-32a* u ; August 14
7-32a0-32.
Phovidknce, Sept. 20.—Stock 4,000.
Fhiladkli'Hla, Sept. 20.—Receipts bales;
middlings 14; exports to Continent —; to
(treat Britain —; market dull.
Memphis, September 20.—Receipts 286; Bales
200; middlings 13a; stock 2,088; exports to
Great Britain ; to the continent ;
coastwise ; market steady, demand good.
Savannah, September 20.—Net and gross re
ceipts 2.666 bales; sales ; middlings ;
low middlings —; good ordinary —; exports to
Great Britain --; to continent ; coastwise
J to France - ; stock 8,176; market firm.
Norfolk, September 20.—Receipts 812 ; sales
40 ; low middlings 13; stock 843 ; exports to
Great Britain ; market quiet.
Wilmington, September 20.—Receipts 110; sales
; middlings 12 „ ; stock 007 ; exports to
Great liritaiu —; market firm.
Baltimobk, September 20.—Receipts 1 ; ship
ments —; sales 65; stock 1,009; middlings 13>i;
exports to continent 67; market dull aud lower.
Boston, Sept. 20. Receipts 62 ; sales —;
middlings 14 \; exports to Great Britain ;
stock 4,737; market quiet.
New dtuEANß, September 20.—Receipts 1,790;
sales 750; middlings 13 ',; low middlings ;
| good ordinary ; exports to Great Britain
quiet.
Charleston, September 20—Receipts 1696 bales;
sales 1.000; middlings 12/#; stock 7,727 ; ex
ports to Great Britain ; to tho continent
Galveston, September 20—Receipts 578; sales
; to continent ; stock 17,343; market
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NO. 222
MALARIA!
Read, Reflect and Act.
li one grain of Vaccine Virus, takon from tho
cow's udder and kept dry for years, theu mois
tened, and the keenest point of a Laucut dipped
lu It ami drawn gently OU tho arm, so ns not to
draw the bitted, will so impregnate aud chauge
the entire system as to prevent the party vac
cinated from taking the most loathsome dis
eases (smallpox) for an entire life; agaiu, if the
Celebrated Eucalyptus tree will change an unin
habitable malarial district into a healthy, salu
brious clime, by simply absorbing from the at
mosphere the poisou malaria, why will not the
proper remedy, properly applied, neutralize and
destroy the poison, known us malaria, aud thus
enable parties to inhabit malarial districts with
impunity '(
We claim that thero is such a remedy, aud that
wo have prepared it, aud applied it, aud proved
it in our Anti-malarial or Euchyiuial Belt—aud
that persons who will wear this Belt may inhabit
the worst malarial districts without the fear of
having any diseases arising from malaria; such as
Chills ami Fever, Billious or Intermittent Fever,
Yellow Fever, Jaundice, Enlarged Liver and
Spleen, Indigestion, Constipation and Hem
orrhoids, aud tha it will cure all the above dis
eases, except the worst cases of Billious aud Yel
low Fever.
This is ualled an Anti-malarial or Eucbyniial
Belt, as it corrects tbe humors of tbe oody aud
produces a healthy action, invigorating the sys
tem, and thus enabling it to per.orm its various
duties without fearing the effects of malaria iu
the least.
It has been tried iu thousands of cases without
a failure,
Thoy can bo obtained from tho proprietors in
any quantity at the Powell Building, junction of
Broad and Peachtree streets, Atlanta. Oa.
Price for a single Belt $3, or $5 with a guaran
tee that it will ouie or the money refunded.
N. B.—None genuine without the trade mark
is stamped upon them.
Drs. LOVE bi WILLSON, solo proprietors in the
United Btutcs. Address,
LOVE A WILIJ4ON,
Room No. 8, Powell Building, Atlanta, Ga.
A liberal discount made to the trade.
Caution.—This Belt or Pad, like all articles of
merit, is being imitated by parties who ary try
ing to put up a worthless article, as there is not
a living person, besides ourselves, that knows
the ingredients in it. Wo are the patentees, aud
have our Belt protected by a Trade Mark.
Burk Cure.—lu another column will be found
two remarkable certificates about the efficacy of
Drs. Willson A Love’s Malarial Belts. The diffi
culty iu the way of using these belts is that they
are so simple that few can believe that there is
any virtue iu them. When a patient is told to
use one he is very much like Naaruou wben told
that, to cure his leprosy, he had only to bathe in
the river Jordan. Hon. John E. Ward says that
(luring his stay in China, as Minister, these belts
were used with great as preventives of
cholera. We know a case where a lady had been
suffering with chilis for more than a year, aud
was Dually induced to adopt one of these belts.
She has not had a return of the chills since, aud
she is fully persuaded that it is owiug to the belt.
Dr. Willson’s terms are very fair—no cure, no
pay.
Jhi'-ltcad the following certificates;
Atlanta, Ga., June S, 1875.
Messrs. Love & Willson: Gentlemen—ln Aprl
last 1 was taken sick with regular Fever aud
Ague, having it every alternate day. After it had
run on mu for two weeks, 1 wus induced to try
one of your Anti-malarial belts; so I discarded all
medicine, and simply wore one of your Belts, as
directed, aud my Ague became lighter each suc
cessive time thereafter for some three or four
times, when it left me entirely, with a good appe
tite aud clear skiu; aud iu future, il I should ever
have a Chill or Ague, I would want one of your Puds,
aud no physic. Wishing everybody that may bo
so unfortunate ns to have Chills and Fever may
be fortunate enough to get one of your Belts,
I am, respectfully, etc.,
W. J. Wilson.
Atlanta, Ga., June 3, 1876.
Drs. Love A Willson:
On the first day of December last I was taken
with Chills aud Fever in Thomasville, Southwes
tern Ga.. aud wub treated for the same by three
eminent physicians who were able to Btop it only
for a few days at a time. It made such inroads
on my constitution that my physician pronoun
ced me to be iu the first stages of consumption,
wh en I accidentally met up with Drs. Love k Will
son’s Anti-malarial Belt, which has entirely cured
me. 1 have had but one chill since, and that was
the first day after putting it on. lam now in as
good health as 1 ever was iu my lile, and think
this Belt a Ged-scnd to the afflicted.
J. M. Mathews.
Cannon House, Atlanta, Ga., June 4,1875.
Borne nine years ago I contracted malaria in
Muvunnah, Ga., from which I have suffered, at
times, ever since, until I met up with Drs. Love Si
Willsou's Anti-malarial Belt some three mouths
ago. 1 have worn it continually, and have had no
chill since, and find my general health, which
hus been poor, much improved. I would recom
mend it to others suffering with malaria.
R. A. Wallace.
Macon, Ga., June 4,1876.
Friend Hodgson: I received your letter of tho
20tli ult., on yesterday, I have been off on a fish
ing excursion and just returned.
The people of this town don’t cliill worth a cent
yet. 1 have sold two of the pads, and that I did
the very hour I first received them, one to one of
our conductors, and to Mr. Vaughn, a Clerk in
the office. They both say that they tried Quinine
and other remedies, and that they failed till they
put on tho pad; since then they have had no more
Chills or Fever, and they recommend them to ev
erybody. ***** Alex. Mathews,
Tho above pads were sent for us by Dr. Hodg
son, who is addressed as above.
AnnKviLLE C. 11., 8. C„ July 16.
Dus. Love k Willson, Atlanta, Ga.—Gentle
men—l have been a sufferer from chills and fsver
for (19) nineteen years, and have used'aU of the
popular remedies, but ouly had temporary relief
until about three months since, I was induced, by
your agent, Captain W. R. White, to wear one of
your “Anti-Marial Belts.” 1 have uot had a chill
since putting It on. It has enabled me to look
after my farming interest more closely, and ex
pose myself to ruin and sunshine more than for
nineteen years. It has been worth to mo. In
feelings and absolute results, not less than five
huudred dollars.
I cheerfully recommend It to all “shakers.”
Respectfully, etc.,
JAMES McCRABY.
Atlanta Ga., August 7th, 1878.
Drs. Love A Willson :—Dear Sirs—l have been
having chills, caused from living in a malarious
district, for seven years. During that time I
have taken ounces of Quiuiue, with which I have
usually checked them for a while, but they have
invariably returned as soon ns I would leave off
tho use of the medicine. Having taken Arse
nic aud Strichuine, and nearly every chill
remedy I over heard of. 1 procured, a month
since, one of your “Anti-Malarial Belts,” which I
have worn, and during this time I have had only
one chill, which was brought on by being sxposed
to night air aud getting wet. It has done me
more good than all tho internal remedies put to
gether which 1 have taken in the past seven years.
I am very gratefully and respectfully yours,
WILLIAM CRENHHAW, Dentist.
N. B.—Piles, Hemmorrholds and Fistula made
a specialty by us, aud radical cures guaranteed in
every case that cornea to our office.
J. T. Love,
J. 8. Willson.
For sale by
DR. F. L. BROOKS.
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H. D. MOORE’S REPAIR SHOP,
South Store in Jones' Building, Oglethorpe 8*
T>UYB and sells old Furniture
L> ou Commission, Upholster
lnf?' C* llo Work and Repairing
done generally, in good style.
mLggHgttSMgsV I am now using Johnson’s cele
brated stains, which are the
best in the United States. H. D. MOORE,
Just South of McKee's Carriage Shop.
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